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...place not because of their significance as fashion, but because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show's emphasis on fame over fashion says a lot about the V&A's reasons for staging it in the first place. When the museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion press asked...
...course, Bowles could wear the pink suit and still not flank her on gender. Women greet the Harvard Law grad and former Secretary of both Labor and Transportation like a rock star. By hiding a steel magnolia under a sweet one, she puts powerful men at ease while racing past them, a trait many women could...
...Portraits of Colin Powell and Jackie Robinson flank the entrance in his outer office. Dozens of elephant sculptures rest atop the room's bookcases and cabinets. A Quran and Bible sit on the shelf behind his desk. The Chief is a major in the District of Columbia Air National Guard and holds a PhD in Urban Studies and Criminology from Portland State University. The responsibility he holds - and feels - for protecting the community comes across in the gravity of his conversation...
...like old times, he charmed the locals on a late-night run to McDonald's. After warmup music that included (to sniggers from the audience) Kiss Me and Uptown Girl, his speech was a TelePrompter-free tour de force that gave crucial support to Blair on his other exposed flank - Iraq. All week delegates had been voicing unease about George W. Bush's push toward war and what Blair admitted was a "fear it's being done for the wrong motives." They didn't like being out of the European mainstream, which was summed up in the "total hostility" French...
Moral certainty is potent stuff, and it comes with some nifty fringe benefits. Bush's conservative flank finds it deeply appealing; the current crop of Democratic leaders are rendered virtually speechless by it. But moral certainty "without trying to nuance," as Bush put it, is a dangerous luxury for a President. If you operate as though Arafat is a terrorist and Israel a victim, you isolate the U.S. from moderate Arab states, who see their region in shades of gray. That could limit your options--and your allies--after you have told everyone that Saddam Hussein can no longer...